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Established in 2006, Machines with Magnets hosts experimental music performances, sound and art exhibitions and installations, performance art, film and video screenings, cultural and community events, private events, and fundraisers. Past performances include The Body, Dan Deacon, Mirah, Etran de l'Aïr, Braveyoung, Lydia Lunch, Lightning Bolt, Brown Bird, Container, and Mdou Moctar.
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Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp with DakouDakou
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
8:00 pm
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Founded in 2006 in Geneva, 90 years after Dada, by Vincent Bertholet (Hyperculte), the 12- piece Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp has released 5 albums on the highly influential Bongo Joe Records and played the European festival circuit for years. This will be their second attempt to conquer America – following the release of the latest album, Ventre Unique. The band’s name is an homage to some of the classic Congolese groups (Orchestre Tout Puissant Konono n°1, Orchestre Tout Puissant Polyrytmo, TPOK Jazz etc...) and to one of the greatest provocateurs of 20th century art. Their music mixes echoes of The Ex, Moondog, kraut rock, minimalism, high life, symphonic touches and punk outbursts - and yet, none of it is terribly relevant: OTPMD has managed to invent its own reality – or, if you prefer, a simulation. Their live performances are mesmerizing affairs with an almost ritualistic slant and arrangements so tight they seem to re-organize chaos itself.
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp with DakouDakou
Music Show
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
8:00 pm
$15 adv / $20 day of
Founded in 2006 in Geneva, 90 years after Dada, by Vincent Bertholet (Hyperculte), the 12- piece Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp has released 5 albums on the highly influential Bongo Joe Records and played the European festival circuit for years. This will be their second attempt to conquer America – following the release of the latest album, Ventre Unique. The band’s name is an homage to some of the classic Congolese groups (Orchestre Tout Puissant Konono n°1, Orchestre Tout Puissant Polyrytmo, TPOK Jazz etc...) and to one of the greatest provocateurs of 20th century art. Their music mixes echoes of The Ex, Moondog, kraut rock, minimalism, high life, symphonic touches and punk outbursts - and yet, none of it is terribly relevant: OTPMD has managed to invent its own reality – or, if you prefer, a simulation. Their live performances are mesmerizing affairs with an almost ritualistic slant and arrangements so tight they seem to re-organize chaos itself.
This exhibition is a love letter to the ways we create ourselves and each other, again and again, across thresholds both visible and unseen. Eli Kauffman and J Rowen O’Dwyer bring together vivid, psychologically charged paintings that explore the threshold between the physical and the mythic, the home and the holy. Their work charts the sacred rituals of queer life — from moments of pleasure to acts of care, devotion, and transformation. The home becomes a site of alchemy, the body a threshold, and queer experiences a mirror and a myth in constant renewal. The outside world serves as a mirror, a set on which to explore new versions of ourselves, and fill unexpected roles. Images drawn from play, intimacy, domesticity, and community shift between documentation and dream, honoring both the rawness and the magic of trans and queer existence. Otherworld refers to myths and realms in legends, but also to the term “Otherworldly” describing the uncanny nature of otherness, leaving the door open to new realms, for those considered outcast.
This exhibition is a love letter to the ways we create ourselves and each other, again and again, across thresholds both visible and unseen. Eli Kauffman and J Rowen O’Dwyer bring together vivid, psychologically charged paintings that explore the threshold between the physical and the mythic, the home and the holy. Their work charts the sacred rituals of queer life — from moments of pleasure to acts of care, devotion, and transformation. The home becomes a site of alchemy, the body a threshold, and queer experiences a mirror and a myth in constant renewal. The outside world serves as a mirror, a set on which to explore new versions of ourselves, and fill unexpected roles. Images drawn from play, intimacy, domesticity, and community shift between documentation and dream, honoring both the rawness and the magic of trans and queer existence. Otherworld refers to myths and realms in legends, but also to the term “Otherworldly” describing the uncanny nature of otherness, leaving the door open to new realms, for those considered outcast.
An evening of cybernetic constitution. Touring Creatures:
X Tiger Hatchery X welcome to the feline aviary. Free-rage-jazz birthing beasts. Accompanied by Mr Paul Flaherty.
X Joey Molinaro X Bow wielding, note shaker. This guy really tears. with Local Behemoths:
X Black Pus X ooozing, dripping, rattling, vibrational heartquake machine.
X Timeghost X android protoplasm brewing wave motion interference. signature socket grid. bulb shock.
X ...Shambling mound... X A mass of tangled vines and dripping slime rises on two trunk-like legs, reeking of rot and freshly turned earth.
Come to mankind's final frontier, Pawtucket! Where we will playing choice episodes of one of the most recognizable sci-fi franchises of all time...STAR TREK! Enjoy some special star trek cocktails, such as bloodwine, and sit back and get ready to go boldly, where no one has gone before!!!
There will be cake. There will be great music. There will be much fun. Please come and enjoy this evening with us. It will be a beautiful birthday memory for Courtney. Also, this will be an awesome chance for you to meet a fantastic musician from New Zealand, and to support local/regional music. Please PM Courtney, Mali, Emily, or Katie if you need further justifications for attending this shindig. Doors @ 7:30
Show @ 8:00 SHARP (Don't be late!) // All Ages Westeryear - Beautiful layers and harmonies of tender music that feel a warm hug. April Fish - Mysterious voices-in-your-head-esque 'proto-punk' from New Zealand. Courtney Swain - Dreamy and sorta progressive singer-songwriter sounds. Jaggery - Haunting and somewhat demented chamber-pop from Boston MA.
MIKE COYKENDALL // Currently most well known for his duties as a sideman, producer, and recordist via his work with M Ward, Blitzen Trapper, She & Him, Annalisa Tornfelt, & Tin Hat Trio, Coykendall has been making his own unique outsider records since the mid '80s. BEN MASON // A songwriter from Melbourne, Ben Mason's psych-pop band, the Smallgoods released three critically acclaimed albums between 2003-2007.
DEATH VESSEL // That Joel Thibodeau’s slender, winsome voice is at once so comforting and so unsettling might be the greatest of his many strengths. Reed-thin but sturdy, youthful but somehow ageless, its deep benevolence is also slightly eerie.
FIELD DRUMS // Taking a cue from their mutual love of great pop hooks and harmonies, Field Drums is a playground for Rachel and Jeffrey to embrace and play around with their pop and other musical leanings, incorporating drums, guitar, and two voices.
Rafael Toral plays electronic music today as a jazz musician would play his instrument, applying jazz discipline and working practices to his abstract electronics. The result is truly evolutionary music, once described as "a brand of electronic music far more visceral and emotive than that of his cerebral peers". Melodic without notes, rhythmic without a beat, familiar but strange, meticulous but radically free, it is riddled with interesting paradox. Toral has developed a musical system to physically play experimental electronic instruments and puts it to practice with large-scale project Space Program — a complex network of recordings and performances to deliver music that is full of clarity and space, articulating silence and sound in a thoughtful, yet physical way.
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents FLICKER, PULSE: An Evening with Bruce McClure & Alexander Dupuis, curated by Seth Watter. The art of Bruce McClure is sometimes called, with a nod to the sixties, “expanded cinema.” A more apt expression might in fact be “reduced cinema,” or cinema stripped to its most elementary components: light, sound, a room full of bodies. McClure himself calls it “projector performance,” a phrase that highlights the aspect of live enactment and improvisation that is so integral to all his efforts. McClure creates “a remystification of cinema… meant to elicit astonishment and wonder, but calibrated for a twenty-first-century audience attuned to the aesthetics of noise and distortion” (Ed Halter, Artforum).
Saturday 09.12.15 / 6pm–1am / $5 before 8pm / $8 after.
Epic release party. 42 one-of-a-kind lathe cut 7"s & 2 CD set available in letterpress-printed, hand-numbered editions (200 sets of CDs, only one copy of each lathe will be sold). Performances by:
BLEVIN BLECTUM & ED OSBORN • JEFF CAREY • MORGAN EVANS-WEILER • SARAH HENNIES • SHAWN GREENLEE • JEREMY HARRIS • DONNA PARKER & VIC RAWLINGS • ANDREA PENSADO • SOFT TARGET • TIMEGHOST • MATT UNDERWOOD • WORK/DEATH + live realizations of JOHN CAGE’S IMAGINARY LANDSCAPE NO. 5 between acts.
Dan Friel: Serpentine, melodic clamor oozing from accelerated sequences. Thrill Jockey Records Voyager. Wilted Woman: Returning to RI from a satellite over Berlin, industrial technician and electron daredevil, transmitting on Primitive Languages, Wicked City, MORE records. Davey Harms: From something about bits of burger and a bicycle, yea the Mincemeat or Tenspeed dude. Lexical originator of Fake Techno. Unicorn Hard-On: Hardwired Korg abuse. Sopping, drippy, hyperdimensional game of life techno. V A L E R I E.
PETER SELIGMAN. (NYC) / distorted layers of computer noise smeared over psychotic, seizure inducing rhythm. MYSTERIOUS HOUSE. (NYC) / disorienting software noise blizzard. ex- jamesamoeba. BASTIAN VOID. (Worcester, MA) / glistening modular synthesis by Joe Bastardo. Moss Archive label head. HNTR HNTR. (PVD) / a rare outing by the one and only Curtis! soothing but occasionally violent, computer-based electronics. TIME BASE CORRECTOR. (PVD) / "pre-music consciousness" by electronic psycho popper Matt Underwood. always strange.
Emily Shaw of The Sugar Honey Iced Tea and Penn Sultan of Last Good Tooth will be kicking off the night with a killer duet set. The Lentils: The Lentils' last show in RI before they leave us for the sunny shores of California!! Happy Jawbone is dead! Long live The Lentils! The Lentils always give it 100%. The Lentils are good for you. Where would you be without The Lentils? Louie Louie: All female garage pop band. Slight-Psych, Rock and freaking ROLL am I Right?!? Pyramid: "_____" - Dirty punk from pvd. Grape Room. The Lentils are actually transformers. You'll see.
THE RITA. (Vancouver) classic, abrasive, bull shark harsh noise since '96. RICHARD RAMIREZ. (Texas)
harsh noise originator at it since '89. member of Black Leather Jesus. TINNITUSSTIMULUS. (Providence)
purely executed noise from the one and only... A WEEK OF KINDNESS. (Texas)
Sean Matzus of Black Leather Jesus. disturbing electro acoustic noise. SERPENTINE. (Texas)
drone/ noise duo, bad feelings. members of Tissa Mawartyassari. DAVE PUBLIC. (Providence)
art sucks. speed, power, victory!
2nd Annual Experimental Music Festival in Pawtucket, RI __ Music Schedule __ 4:00 Spiritual Recess G / 4:05 Shambling Mound M / 4:25 Morgan Packard G / 5:05 Houseboy M / 5:40 Work/Death G / 6:05 Blistex M / 6:25 Mares Laig G / 6:40 Laurie Amat M / - 7:25 Birdlady M / 7:45 Vision Control G / 8:20 Belarisk M / 8:50 Domestique G / 9:15 Sitting Adult M / 9:50 Craow/ST G / 10:10 Vehement Caress M / 10:40 Virusse G / 11:05 Apathy & Steel M / 11:40 Reverse Engineering G / 12:10 Jahiliyya Fields M. (M - Main space, G - Gallery space)
The air is thick, ferocious vocal harmony, real, real music. --Soleilune-- PVD
New providence beauty music. --Brian 4 Ever-- PVD
"He looks up to Gucci Mane." --Dustan Louque-- New Orleans.
Former Atlantic Records gone rogue. --Layers And Frames-- Philly.
Electronic World Folk. --Bent Knee-- Boston.
Progressive, powerful, dynamic force. Gaining rapid attention in Boston, see what it's about.
